This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It takes an extended look at the children's lives and development as they grow and begin formal education, and the implications for family policy, and service planning in health and social services. Preview on Google Books.

Children of the 21st Century is based on findings from the first survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS1), focusing on the early lives of almost 19,000 children born in the UK at the start of the 21st century. It is the first in a series of publications reporting on the MCS cohort at different stages of their development. Preview on Google Books.

This book provides a unique insight into social change in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. It draws on three internationally renowned British birth cohort studies, based on tracking samples of people born in one week in 1946, 1958 and 1970 through surveys from birth, through childhood and adolescence and into adulthood. In 1999–2000 all three cohorts were surveyed in the same period, which provided the first-ever opportunity for a direct comparison of the lives of the three groups of people.